Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sale of the "Olive Branch," only signed copy in the U. S., set a new price record for a single item of Americana.† After spirited competition with A. Edward Newton. Charles Sessler of Philadelphia, and Alwin J. Scheuer of New York, who ran the price to $52,000, Gabriel Wells, Manhattan collector and dealer whose Americana is one of the most important in the U. S., bought it for $53,000. Said he: "That will go directly into my safe. You can depend on that...
...Child statue, represents on its principal face the angel appearing to Zacharias. The priest of the course of Abia is officiating at an altar covered with a cloth. In his right hand he holds a censer, in the left a book, but both objects are now much broken. Gabriel, with arms, stands before him. On the left face of the capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer is hard at work pulling the cord...
...Pullman Car Hiawatha" you are supposed to imagine, with the aid of a few chairs placed vis-a-vis, the interior of a Pullman on its way from Manhattan to Chicago. The action, which starts off realistically enough, goes rapidly symbolic: Archangels Gabriel and Michael, other such un-humdrum figures appear. Of the other plays two ("Queens of France," "Love and How to Cure It") are farces; two out-realize Belasco...
...nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Died. Sir Hall Caine, 78, famed novelist (The Manxman, The Eternal City, The Woman Thou Gavest Me); of lung congestion; in Greeba Castle, Isle of Man. He was a close friend of David Lloyd George and of the late Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
...other critics in order of guess ability were: J. Brooks Atkinson (Times), John Anderson (Journal), Percy Hammond (Herald Tribune), Walter Winchell (Mirror), Robert Garland (World-Telegram), Richard Lockridge (Sun), Gilbert Seldes (Graphic), Burns Mantle (News), Gilbert Gabriel (American...